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...rank it as the region's biggest exodus in nearly 60 years. Since the war began nearly four years ago, about 2 million Iraqis have left the country and more than 1.6 million others have been displaced inside it, according to U.N. estimates. Tens of thousands more who fled just before the U.S. invasion in 2003 - figuring they would sit out what many anticipated would be a short war - also find themselves in limbo. "As time has gone by, almost none have gone back, and people are beginning to run out of resources," says Astrid van Genderen Stort, spokeswoman...
Most of the Iraqis, some 1.8 million, only made it as far as a neighboring country. They have flooded into Syria and Jordan. The 20,000 or so Iraqis who have fled to Sweden amount to a handful compared to the numbers in the Middle East. Yet Sweden provides perhaps the finest glimpse into how the war is driving the country's large middle class out of Iraq, devastating entire professions. It takes good connections and lots of money - $8,000 to $15,000 - to get to Stockholm from Baghdad, but now it is not just the élite...
Sweden is rare in allowing entry to any Iraqis who can prove they have just fled central and southern Iraq, no matter what their political involvement or how they reached Scandinavia, according to Swedish Migration officials. (Some Iraqis have been returned to other countries under European rules requiring refugees to claim asylum in the first E.U. country in which they arrive.) As a consequence, Iraqis in Sweden range from Shi'ites like Alaa, who are fleeing Sunni militia, to Sunnis who for decades belonged to the Baath Party and supported Saddam's regime. Until the volume of Iraqis began...
...Israelis held a C-shaped majority of the land that ran from Galilee in the north to the Sinai Peninsula in the south, leaving the Arabs only a central ear from Jerusalem east to the Jordan River and the tiny sliver of Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs fled their villages for Jordan, for Gaza, for the West Bank, for other Arab countries. Many landed in squalid refugee camps, where they live on now. The physical proximities of the land, and the hatreds that filled them, were terrifying. Arabs and Jews stared into one another's gun muzzles...
...crowd of more than 200 locals gathered outside the courthouse for the Dec. 7 preliminary hearing into the murder. There was no similar clamor for the head of Volz's Nicaraguan co-accused. When Volz was led out of the courthouse, the mob descended upon him and the police fled the scene, forcing Volz and a security agent from the U.S. embassy in Managua to run for their lives into a nearby gymnasium to wait for help...